Mrs. Zhang hurriedly explained to herself, "My home is very clean, there are no mice, but I usually feed some stray cats, one of them is particularly humane, know how to repay the gratitude, before I got sick, it had twice caught the dead rat next to my pillow, I thought it was also good, so I didn't care much, just took out the dead mouse and threw it in the trash can outside the yard, I didn't expect such a short contact for a while, I actually contracted the disease, doctor, can my disease be cured?" ”

Gu Jiashu responded on the side, "Your situation was discovered early, treated in time, and there is no danger to your life, don't worry." ”

Hearing the news from the doctor, Mrs. Zhang didn't seem to be completely relieved, and asked: "Since my disease is infected by mice, then those cats I raise eat mice directly, will there be problems with the cats?" ”

Gu Jiashu felt that the old lady Zhang in front of him was indeed a little too kind, and he was about to be unable to protect himself, and he was still thinking about the stray cats he raised.

Gu Yanan responded: "If the cat has been in contact with rats carrying hantavirus, then they may also be infected, so we need you to provide a list of people you have recently come into contact with, as well as information about the stray cats you have raised, the more detailed the better." ”

"Oh, I usually have very few people, and the people who often chat are some old sisters in the community, and the place to chat is in the central garden of the community, and you are also the place where I feed the stray cats, there are many stray cats in the garden, more than 10, and there are a few kittens just laid by the mother cat.

By the way, I live on the 1st floor of Unit 2, there is a yard in front of the door, and there are a few long-term cats in the yard, which are the stray cats I fed last year, and a few of them have returned home with me, and they have become domestic cats when they live in the yard.

The one who gave me the mouse this time was the white cat that turned into a small flower in the house cat and had yellow spots on its head.

The mouse that Florets placed next to my pillow was large, with grayish-brown fur and a long tail. ”

Gu Yanan deduced from Mrs. Zhang's description that the mouse that the cat brought to her should be a brown house mouse, a common house mouse.

Brown rats can cause hemorrhagic fever with muchurine renal syndrome, which can occur throughout the year, mainly because of contact with mice with Khantanvirus.

After learning the basic information from Mrs. Zhang, Gu Yanan first sent the patient's specimen back to the CDC laboratory, and then took the CDC team composed of Gu Qingcen, Lu Li and Wang Xiaoxiao to the community where Mrs. Zhang lived.

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Lianhai City, Dongping Community.

According to the address provided by Mrs. Zhang, Gu Yanan and his party found the location of the first floor of Unit 2 of Building 7.

As Mrs. Zhang said, she lives on the first floor with a small courtyard in front of the door.

Mrs. Zhang was in a hurry to be picked up by the 120 ambulance, and the courtyard door of her home was only hidden before leaving, but now she pushed it open with a gentle push.

The courtyard is planted with fruit and vegetables in pots, and the vines of the loofah have climbed out of the courtyard wall.

In one corner of the yard was a shack made of iron cages, in which many cats lay down.

Lu Li gently pushed open another small door in the courtyard, which was the second door to Mrs. Zhang's house.

The door was also hidden, and when it was opened, a cat suddenly came in from the yard and seemed to have something in its mouth, because it was so fast that no one around it could see it.

Wang Xiaoxiao, who was behind Lu Li, was taken aback.

Wang Xiaoxiao covered her heart and complained, "A cat suddenly sprang out in broad daylight, and it scared people to death." ”

"It's just a cat."

Lu Li said as he walked into Mrs. Zhang's hut, following the cat's shadow all the way.

I saw that the cat just now had a dead mouse in its mouth, jumped on the bed in Mrs. Zhang's bedroom, coiled on the bed for a while, and finally put the mouse in its mouth next to the pillow.

Seeing this, Lu Li remembered what Gu Yanan said on the way here, Mrs. Zhang once said that there was a stray cat who would bring her a gift, but she didn't expect this to happen in front of her.

Gu Yanan observed that the cat on Mrs. Zhang's bed was a white cat with yellow spots on its head, the same as Mrs. Zhang's description, "This is the cat that Mrs. Zhang said will only give gifts, everyone be careful, cats and mice may carry hantavirus." ”

Hantavirus can be transmitted not only by contact, but also through the respiratory tract, so everyone in the emergency response team wore masks and gloves before they arrived.

Now that a suspected source of infection is being seen, everyone is doubly cautious.

The dead rats were first put into the sampling bag, and then a comprehensive inspection of Mrs. Zhang's home was conducted.

Mrs. Zhang's bedroom, kitchen, and living room were inspected in every corner to see if there were other mice.

After checking it, it turned out to be the same as Mrs. Zhang said, her home was cleaned very clean, except for the mice sent by stray cats, there were no traces of other mice.

After inspecting the house, Gu Yanan asked Lu Li and Wang Xiaoxiao to catch all the stray cats raised in Mrs. Zhang's yard back to the disease control laboratory, firstly, to prevent these stray cats from continuing to catch mice to spread diseases, and on the other hand, to detect whether these stray cats carry hantavirus.

It is not an easy task to catch stray cats, stray cats are extremely vigilant, fortunately, these cats in Mrs. Zhang's yard have been fed by Mrs. Zhang for a long time, and most of the wildness has been removed, as long as they are given food to lure, it is quite convenient to catch.

Lu Li and Wang Xiaoxiao stayed in Mrs. Zhang's yard to catch cats, and Gu Qingcen and Gu Yanan went to the central garden of the community, preparing to find the people that Mrs. Zhang often came into contact with to investigate.

Dongping Community, Central Garden.

Gu Yanan saw from a distance that on the promenade next to the central garden, several old ladies were gathered together and chatting.

Gu Yanan showed his work card and talked to the old ladies.

"Do you know Mrs. Zhang, who lives on the 1st floor of Unit 2 of Building 7?"

The chatty old ladies responded.

"Acquaintance."

"I know, and I know each other very well, Mrs. Zhang comes over every day to feed these stray cats, and we are old friends with her."

"But I haven't seen her in the last two days, it seems to be sick, two days ago when she came to feed the stray cats, she said that she was in pain, and a little fever, probably a cold."

One of the old ladies looked mysterious, lowered her voice and said, "I don't think it's necessarily a cold, Mrs. Zhang is in good health at times, and it's not cold recently, why did she suddenly catch a cold?" You see, now that even the disease control people are here, maybe it's a serious illness or a strange disease. ”

The old ladies chatting all looked at Gu Yanan and Gu Qingcen, their eyes questioning, as if they were waiting for a reply from the disease controller.

Gu Yanan: "Mrs. Zhang is infected with a kind of hemorrhagic fever transmitted by rodents, which has fever and pain all over her body in the early stage of the disease, similar to a cold, but the course of the disease progresses very quickly, there will be a tendency to bleed, and the treatment is late and life-threatening." ”

The old ladies chatting all looked nervous, "Mouse? There are not many mice in the yard of our community, you see so many stray cats in the garden, they have nothing to eat, of course they catch mice, but will this disease be infectious? Mrs. Zhang often chats with us, will it be infective to us? ”

"The disease can be transmitted from person to person, and infected cats can also be transmitted to people."

One of the old ladies exclaimed, "Oh my God, I touched those stray cats yesterday." ”

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